In ‘Looper’, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Wears Prosthetics To Look Like Bruce Willis.

I can’t wait for Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’. Time travel, Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Beast mode initialized. Yet, it’s so so far away. Johnson recently spoke a bit about the plot, as well as the JGL-Bruce Willis acting connection.

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How Much Energy Would Death Star Need To Destroy Earth? Important Study.

I know what you’re thinking. Should the Multiverse ever crack open and a Death Star slither out through the chasm between time and space, there’s a good chance that Earth is fucked. But let’s get down to the nitty gritty. Just how much energy would Palpatine’s Death Machine need to obliterate our Blue Marble?

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Video: 1990s Christian Group Proclaims Ninja Turtles Are Tools Of The Devil.

There was a Canadian Christian panel back in the 1990s that was totally not radical. They took a run at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, calling them mercenaries and assassins! Which only makes them cooler in my book. They’re legit threats to our children preaching…humanism! Oh God!, not humanism.

The video is pretty awesome.

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Gaming Industry Spent $190,000 Pushing For Senate Version of SOPA Last Summer. Bastiches.

The US Senate has its own version of the infernal SOPA bill, called PIPA. Last summer the gaming industry spent a considerable amount of money pushing to get the goddamn thing passed.

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Research Council: Water Shortage? Time To Start Drinking Urine.

Fresh water. It isn’t the easiest thing to come by, especially with the world’s population bulging like a genuine American’s waistband. What are we going to do, eh? According to one Brain Trust who clearly were awed by the  prescience  of Waterworld, we gotta get our pee drinking on. Way ahead of you! (…Wait, what?)

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Marvel’s President And Publisher Is F**King Sick Of Industry Death Sentences.

Hey, I’ll have whatever Dan Buckley is drinking. Or reading. Or meditating upon. Marvel’s president and publisher is pretty fucking tired of us goons and bozos proclaiming the end of the comics industry.

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Witch Head Nebula Is Colder Than A Witch Nebula’s..Oh Forget It.

Check out the Witch Head Nebula. At first I couldn’t see it and then it was all like g’damn! Blasted me square off the tits with its similarity to some witch I had a run-in with at a bar one-time in downtown Salem. Really mess affair involving cauldrons and steaming pairs of dungarees.

Wait, so what is actually going on here?

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Creator Of The ‘Konami Code’ Talks About Its Origin.

Either you know the Konami Code, or you’re adrift in geek lore mediocrity. Ever wonder why it was the specific code it was? Neither did I. Get educated anyways.

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Video: Hacked PlayStation Camera Lets Paralyzed Artist Continue His Work.

Tony Quan is a dude unfortunately paralyzed by ALS. Quan is also an artist who isn’t letting that stop him from continuing his craft, thanks to a hacked PlayStation camera.

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DINOSAURS, Life On Earth, And Relativity.

This is a bit out there, but hey what the fuck can you do. I was bombing through Warren Ellis and John Cassaday’s Planetary last night when there was a segment about the explosion that wiped out the dinosaurs. As I am wont to be, I got a bit curious and began wondering: just how long enough was this shit?, what were we up to?, and perhaps more vacuously: could people have come to Earth (people being a rather homosapien-heavy filtering of the notion of intelligent life, a concept perhaps even beyond our simian brains to comprehend outside of limited parameters) and I came across a pretty awesome way of looking at Dinosaurs, Us, and How Long We’ve Been Here.

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